Article (Turkish): Şam ve savaş (On Damaskus, War, and … Istanbul)

In the March/April edition of the Turkish literary magazine edeb!yat (pp. 67-68) I write about how wars (as imminent and predictable as they might seem) were not perceived as such in the flow of everyday life in Damaskus some years ago. This short essay refers to how such a perception may also be true of Istanbul.

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